The National Aviation Authority of Portugal (Autoridade Aeronáutica Nacional, AAN) has hosted the Annual Military Airworthiness Conference this week. The two-day event saw keynote speeches delivered by EDA Chief Executive Jorge Domecq and General Manuel Teixeira Rolo of AAN, while key stakeholders from national authorities, industry, European agencies, NATO and international ...
Monday 26th September saw AlSat Nano – a joint CubeSat mission between the UK Space Agency and Algerian Space Agency, successfully launched from India. Contact with the satellite was established shortly after launch and orbital injection from the Surrey Space Centre (University of Surrey) ground station in Guildford. A number of ...
The deployment of RAF aircraft and personnel for an international Exercise programme across the Asia-Pacific region has been announced by Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier. The Typhoon fighter and the Red Arrows will undertake public displays and training events with international Defence partners. The deployment ...
On 30 September 2016 the AirTanker consortium, of which Cobham is a shareholder, reached the final milestone in the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) programme with the achievement of ‘Full Service Date’. The FSTA project, the largest private-funded defence project to date, includes a 27-year contract through to 2035 that covers ...